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Once a month, I send out an email to the folks who subscribe to my email list. A few months ago, I noticed a particular auto-responder that I got from one of the lawyers who subscribes to the list: I only check my email twice each day.  My goal is to reply to yours within […]

I was sitting in my four-year-old’s room finishing up the square knot on his muslin-blanket-turned-superhero-cape. He looked at me with a twinkle and said, “Let’s play the jumping game!” I put my hands on the ground palms down and assumed the posture of a silverback gorilla. Jack climbed onto my back, perched on my shoulders, […]

You have ultimate control over your own success or failure. The locus of control is squarely within your domain. It’s important that you understand that. This isn’t to say everything you attempt will be successful no matter how badly you want it — certainly it will not. But there are things you can control for […]

Part 5, Legacy of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation With the creation of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation in April 1962 and a declaration of intent published within the next month, Director Edward Crafts (who served in this capacity from 1962-1969) had only to set plans in motion. The BOR served primarily advisory and assistance […]

Part 4, The ORRRC Proposes a Plan With the data collected and analyzed, the ORRRC began the process of determining recommendations and guidelines for the future. Principally, the ORRRC saw outdoor recreation as the responsibility of all levels of government. Many saw mass participation in outdoor recreation as “essential to the well-being of the American […]

Part 3, The Economics of Outdoor Recreation The following will explore these eight variables and their relationships to one another, as well as demonstrating the data gathered by the ORRRC in the National Recreation Survey. The tables included have been derived from information and charts included in the study reports released by the Outdoor Recreation […]

Part 2, Creation of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation The Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission delivered its final report on January 31, 1962, and dissolved itself shortly thereafter. On March 1 of the same year, President Kennedy announced the impending creation of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation (BOR), which would operate under the Department of […]

Part 1, The Role of the ORRRC President Eisenhower created the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission in early summer 1958 when he signed the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Act. The commission’s objective was to research outdoor recreation in the United States and propose methods to make it more readily accessible to the majority of people, especially […]

Recently, Joanna Penn was talking on her podcast about all the different things she’s tried and revenue sources she has developed over the years as a part of her writing business. She said that every year she does an analysis of the work she enjoys and finds productive and the work she needs to either […]

It occurred to me one day in early October, while working on a problem no one in my firm had dealt with before, that I had just entered my seventh year of practice. And that suddenly seemed like a pretty significant amount of time. This started me on a pig trail thinking about how comfortable […]